The Winder Police Department will host a public forum April 24 to address a growing number of concerns regarding a substance being referred to as synthetic marijuana. The purpose of the forum is to invite all members of the community who wish to learn more about this topic and speak to them on what is being done to address it, a Winder Police press release states. The forum is set for 6:30 p.m. and will be held in the Winder-Barrow High School cafeteria.

Speakers at the event will include members of the Barrow County District Attorney's Office, representatives from Barrow County Schools, Winder Police Department narcotics investigators and School Resource Officers. A representative from Barrow Regional Medical Center and a state level politician have also been invited to speak, but are not confirmed at this time.

Winder PD hopes to offer an informative lecture on how the substance affects the people who use it and what is being done by the schools, state lawmakers and local law enforcement to address the issue. The forum is free of charge and will include a question and answer style session to conclude the event.

Anyone interested in learning more about this event is asked to contact Detective Gregg Teatino at the Winder Police Department at 678-425-6873.

Yep, I knew you show up soon! --But your propaganda in favor of Weed Legalization is wasted here, the Winder PD, Barrow DA, or anyone else at the forum or reading this blog is not who you need to sell your view to, If you want to legalize it, you need to go to a a much higher legal body (like Legislatures and Congress)... otherwise these good folks are just doing what they were hired to to, in this case educating the public of the dangers of the synthetic marijuana substance. (Not what you call the good stuff, Odin)

Cuz that's EXACTLY what weed will do " free your mind". Seeing you like to quote everyone , why don't you go find a medical quote where it says weed is good for your mind, body, lungs or any other part of the human body. You won't find it anywhere though so just make it up like you do many of your other crazy posts. Weed will do many things, freeing ones mind isn't one of them,,,,unless of course your screen name is Odins Eye. Think I'm gonna start calling you bloodshot eye, seeing you like weed so much.

Odins a PERFECT example of what weed does too your brain kids, stay away from it or end up like this guy. " free the weed and free your mind" give me a freaking break.

It's called THE LAW. That's who I am. It's against the law to purchase,possess, manufacture, and distribute marijuana. Just like it's against the law to rob a bank, it's against the law to put this in your body. Ya wanna put something in your body, your right, you can, just make it something that ISN'T illegal. If you choose to, your choosing to go to jail if caught. You don't like the laws, move somewhere where it is legal. Plain and simple. If not deal with the cosequences.

And what makes these laws "right?" Why is a substance that has never killed anyone illegal, but one that is responsible for 25% of hospitalizations in this country (alcohol) legal? Why do so many of us blindly follow the rules set by those in Washington?

I'd be willing to bet that you've never even tried the drug that you're willing to come online to defend its prohibition. We all have some laws that we disagree with, but we are all expected to follow them. But how can you support one when all you have to back your argument is the same propaganda that has been peddled to the people for close to 100 years now? The drug is safer than the billions of burgers that McDonald's sells, but for some strange reason we are averted to anything that alters our perception (unless it be caffeine, tobacco, or alcohol). The only means that the plant can bring danger to the world is directly caused by its prohibition.

Nobody ever said you had to " blindly" follow the rules". These rules arebcalled laws. If you choose to not follow the laws then you risk the consequences that follow. Yes, as a matter of fact I have smoked marijuana before, 24 years ago. But part of growing up is learning to follow the rules, i.e laws. I choose not to put myself in a situation that would be detrimental to my health, safety and freedom. Again, if you choose to take that road you can't be upset with the consequences, that's a gamble you are taking.

Oh, I follow the law. I am forced to follow the law because I fear the consequences. That said, I disagree with the law vehemently. I do not need big brother protecting me from putting things into my body. The government can warn me all they like (as they do with tobacco), but I'll be damned if I ever think that allowing the will of the masses and the government control my body is a good thing.

why don't you just say pcp and LSD gives you a good trip or et is coming home. I see you post on just about every topic and yet you make no sense. Let me guess you are anti government pro drugs and wear a tin foil hat. Since you are for drugs and do not like the government (communist) pack your crap and leave America. It would be a better place without you here and less air being wasted

had plenty of Govt, drugs illegal yet no matter how long people faced in the Russian prison system it did not stop people from using, turkey Iran where deah and losing limb for having drugs spending time in turkish prison does not stop users what would make you think jail here in the USA is gonna stop folks, like some Police who find large stash of drugs and dump it out and run it into the gutter with water that will make drug trade fall off faster then jail harder to explain what happened to someone load when that happens then when you get arrested

Those who support the failed "war on drugs", support the assualt, kidnapping and murder of their fellow citizens all based on the fear of a plant.
LEOs spread fear and commit terror and benefit financialy from the misery that is caused by their racist laws and fear of losing control of those they cannot understand.

as within so with-out
as above so below.
it is the journey inward that enlightens the mind and up-lifts the soul.
With-out inward reflection the mind will remain entrenched in the mundane and remain a slave to attachment.

" fear of a plant", there are WAY MANY more drugs out here then just " the plant ". Just curious, how is the Winder PD " benefiting financially" from educating the public about companies who make a substance that is causing kidney failure, death, etc. Where in this article does it say they are charging at the door for admission to this class. Go do your research and you will see how much this synthetic marijuana is doing to the ones choosing to smoke it.

Then he should have put " war on marijuana". My "comprehension" is just fine, it's called reading what he said. There are not too many other ways you can comprehend what he posted. Don't think I am the one with " comprehension" issues here citizen.

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Hey Odin..You are not convincing anyone this way
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03/24/12 at 12:52 PM
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Odin, The LEO's Do Not make any Laws, you spout your personal propoganda daily about all these conspiracies, but facts are that the LAWS are made in Legislatures and in Congress, so the LEOs are doing the JOB they were HIRED to do, that is the job. The "Plant" is illegal here, so it is not about "fear of" it is about laws exist that define some things legal, some illegal (like pot is not, alcohol is). Your rants are getting old because you are not selling your view but doing combat with others which has no upside or progress on your views, mostly you just take pot shots at other peoples views(who disagree with your) and cheap shots at law enforcement for doing their jobs. Then you bring in a racist comment which has no place here either. The loser here is you, and you do it to yourself. You fail to get it, probably due to too much drugs.

Jim Crow was law....only proves that just because its LAW, does not make it moral, humane or right.

The law said it was legal....
"The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp “plantations” (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton."

Well what happened??

current MJ laws are based on the racism and fear mongering of the political class.

""In the early 1900s, the western states developed significant tensions regarding the influx of Mexican-Americans. The revolution in Mexico in 1910 spilled over the border, with General Pershing’s army clashing with bandit Pancho Villa. Later in that decade, bad feelings developed between the small farmer and the large farms that used cheaper Mexican labor. Then, the depression came and increased tensions, as jobs and welfare resources became scarce.

One of the “differences” seized upon during this time was the fact that many Mexicans smoked marijuana and had brought the plant with them, and it was through this that California apparently passed the first state marijuana law, outlawing “preparations of hemp, or loco weed.”

However, one of the first state laws outlawing marijuana may have been influenced, not just by Mexicans using the drug, but, oddly enough, because of Mormons using it. Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church’s reaction to this may have contributed to the state’s marijuana law. (Note: the source for this speculation is from articles by Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law at USC Law School in a paper for the Virginia Law Review, and a speech to the California Judges Association .

When Montana outlawed marijuana in 1927, the Butte Montana Standard reported a legislator’s comment: “When some beet field peon takes a few traces of this stuff… he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies.” In Texas, a senator said on the floor of the Senate: “All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff [marijuana] is what makes them crazy.”

Again...If Jim Crow was still the LAW....I'm sure you would still enjoy locking up your fellow citizens.

You act as if a law is handed down from the devine and that law is now universal..
Fact is mans law is nothing but words on paper signed by a few fat cats who stand to benefit from its enforcement.

If you do not like what I write...then don't read it...easy for you.

Namaste amigo

-Harrin

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Hey Odin..You are not convincing anyone this way
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03/24/12 at 04:20 PM
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Just like the marijuana laws, the Jim Crow laws were changed in the Legislatures and in Congress, Not on blogs on the newspaper website (or carved in stone plates or homemade paper hundreds of years ago since you quote what was and not what is) forums about what our Local Governments are doing to educate or serve it's citizens. Laws will be changed over the years, your favorites have not been, so use your pen and write those who represent to you about your love of weed.

I dont really care about the order or history of each state deciding to make marijuana illegal, IT DOESN'T Matter, It IS ILLEGAL NOW.

Since the beginning of widespread cannabis prohibition around the mid 20th century, most countries have NOT re-legalized it for personal use, although more than 10 countries tolerate (or have decriminalized) its use and/or its cultivation in limited quantities. I suggest you PICK ONE OF THOSE 10 NATIONS...Or lobby the correct body of government.

Ha..been there once before....I found the folks there to be ignorant and quite animal like.
They seem to have trouble communicating....lots of grunts and mumbles.
O well I geuss primitve beings need a place to gather.

I love what you write. Your entertaining and comical. Who wouldn't enjoy your vast words of wisdom and logic. You quote all laws that were in force when you weren't even born yet. Times change, economy changes, LAWS change. You can quote anyone and anything you please. Fact of the matter is you hate the fact that there are things out there that your not allowed to do by law and NOBODY is gonna tell ODINS EYE what to do. How dare there be law and order, what are they thinking. How dare they make marijuana illegal, who do they think they are? I'll tell you, it's the United States of America. Ya don't like it here, get over it, leave, move to any other place that will let the all mighty Odin do whatever he pleases, cuz that's all you feel your entitled to anyway. All about the OE isn't it?

Fact is you cannot prohibit the use of psychotropic entheogens.....they have been used by humans for 100,000s of years.
Used is a sacred manner by those who seek to commune with the Gods, by those who seek higher consciousness.
You can beat your macho chests and srceam like apes all you want....fact is you can't stop me or my neighbors from enjoying a raised state of consciousness....even this evening.

You can protest and legislate all you want....fact is you cannot stop an IDEA.

the idea of conscious awareness and the ability to alter ones consciousness trancendes all of societies smoke and mirrors.

When you raise your consciousness, you also raise your empathy for your fellow humans and the earth.
That is an idea whose time has come.

So yall enjoy your life of willful ignorance and self-emposed slavery.

These people are far too close-minded and concerned with controlling your body to listen to what you have to say. Despite the fact that they enjoy guzzling budweiser at the dirt track on Friday night, they think that altering your consciousness is somehow immoral. Hell, some of them even think taking an estrogen pill to keep a woman from ovulating is immoral.

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Hey, You 3 Legalizers, what about this??
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03/24/12 at 09:32 PM
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Odin & Walt & Beth,
1. Sorry its Illegal Now.
2. You all may rant here until the internet shuts down or the economy is so bad the Journal goes under, whichever happens first, ONLY your LAWMAKERS can Change these Laws.
3. I agree with you on certain Civil Liberties that the govt needs to stay out of and "what you put in your bodies, TO A POINT"
4. I say we make it legal but with Some Restrictions, and the government either sells it or regulates it's sale (that will fund the economy and pay for the "restrictions violators" LE costs) --BUT None of You would accept it, would you??? You would want all or none, and I expect you would get none...

I understand the weakness of my argument and I can see the point why drugs such as meth, heroin, and cocaine are illegal. They are destructive to those that use them, those that associate with them, and eventually society itself as those that are addicted steal the copper in my AC unit to get their next hit.

But cannabis is no more dangerous to personal health or safety than half of the things we encounter every day, and it is obvious that humans enjoy slightly altering our consciousness. Let it be legal, regulate its usage like we do with alcohol, and tax the hell out of it.

Barrow county drug task force tried doing a class like this. They put it in the paper, twice, posted it on websites, public buildings etc. Guess how many people showed up....... Any guesses? ...........7, that's it , 7. Barrow county has those who just like to complain about everything but do nothing about it. Public safety tried to educate these people and they were not interested. It's only a matter of time when the sheriff and chiefs step in and tell the officers to stop wasting there time and citizen tax dollars on trying to advertise a class, pay the officers etc....then they pull the plug. Talk to the leaders, get out in community and when people REALLY want to learn, let them know, until then , unfortunately, it won't happen again

things are illegal but if police really enfoced every law the towns would be the jails and probably very few wold not be convicts, but police and da and judges pick cases on easiest to convict and easiest to keep getting monies from. pure and simple since the drug war crimes on others being solved and arrest and conviction have plummeted while drug crime and other victimless enfocement crimes have taken the spotlight as succesful endevors. I would rather see victims get justice then poor dopeheads get lifetime of involvement with this system that takes and since 1972 has done away with redemption and shifted simply to enforcement. thank you

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